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Observation 47: An orienteering mapper from Taunton
So an orienteering mapper like me will need special permission to take the car in? - I need to take my computer etc.  Still I bet there's going to be a lot of red tape also what then happens when I change my plans due to the weather?   What if I then need to move accommodation, and drive in the daytime, OK I'll be parking on private ground, but are they going to try to stop cars?  If there's no parking places people won't stop taking their cars into the park, they'll just drive round all day until they've traversed the entire road network then head for where they're spending the night.   So are all campsites  going to close?  How can you have camping without cars?   All those boxes of food...  if we drive to the gateway and take the bus from the car park at 2200 on Friday night or later if we get held up in Birmingham / Litchfield / Stoke or wherever it presently snarls up, will the bus wait?  Then when we get there in the middle of Friday night will the shops be open for us to shop locally?

The whole concept of the weekend trip will become invalid.  Well, there will be  workarounds, eg by camping outside the restricted zone of the national park and having a non-walking driver drop off parties at the start point.  (Good idea to do this anyway, but it won't reduce the traffic.)

Then how many buses will there be, and how will they cope with the narrow bits of road?  Presumably in lieu of widening, there will be stoplights at all the points where there isn't room for 2 buses to pass.  Which is quite a few places, given that rather a lot of buses are going to be needed.  The capacity of the road system will be reduced, there will be jams, the busses will run late, people at the satellite towns where everyone's meant to leave their cars will miss connections, queues of people waiting for the buses will build up at all the pickup points, huge bus shelters will have to be built,

Quite realistically, one bus drop off will have to serve the majority of people setting off on a route like the Snowdon horseshoe.  The start of a lot of paths will have to be widened as people got off the bus(es) last catch up and overtake those who got off earlier.  Then when everyone arrives back at the pickup point with the intention of timing their arrival for the departing bus, a queue will build up in somewhere like the Pen Y Gwryd pub with everyone wanting to buy a drink at the same time.  Then the bus will arrive and everyone will get on it and the pub will lose all the potential customers who hadn't made it to the front of the queue in time to drink up before departure.   There must be lots of things like that where everyone arriving in intermittent pulses of traffic are going to cause problems. 

And are cars such a problem at present?  I never get held up at the time I drive, usually I've got the road to myself.


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